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“Now, our intent is to return the community as quickly as possible back to normal,” said MetroSafe executive director Doug Hamilton.

Reopening Dixie Highway is a big part of that. The detour has added extra miles and minutes to daily commutes.

When it reopens, the road will have a reduced speed limit and barriers in place to prevent cars from hitting the derailed train cars that remain between the tracks and Dixie Highway.

"We're going to put some additional barriers in place. We're waiting on additional signage and we're going to restrict some speeds to 20 mph and we want people to be very careful when they go through there," said Louisville Metro Police Department Col. Yvette Gentry.

Hazmat specialists moved and stabilized cars containing hydrogen fluoride Sunday and plans are in the works to offload the content.

Restrictions for residents in the area have been lifted and previously evacuated residents have been allowed to return home.

Officials lifted the restrictions after two rail cars containing hydrogen fluoride were stabilized.

“The containers are safe. They are secure and confirmed as not leaking and that is a relief to us as well as the community members,” Hamilton said.

Art Smith with the Environment Protection Agency said there is evidence of styrene and butadiene in the soil in the immediate area of the derailment site. Smith said they are monitoring all possible exposures of workers.

The area outside the immediate crash site was monitored Sunday to rule out hydrogen fluoride release before restrictions for residents were lifted.

The next step in the cleanup process is to rebuild the railroad and bring cars in to offload the chemicals that are still in the tanks.

All rail cars are upright and stable and the federal railroad administration is bringing in additional personnel to aid in the investigation.

Six chemical cars remain to be unloaded: two hydrogen fluoride, two butadiene and two sodium hydroxide cars, along with an unknown number of plastic pellet cars. The offloading will be done by the companies that own the products.

No offloading will be done Monday and the companies must give emergency management 72 hours notice before they offload a product. At this time, the containers are safe, secure and not leaking.

Railroad employees have been working to rebuild the portion of the track that was damaged in the derailment and can have that reconstructed in just 12 hours.

P&L CEO Tony Reck said the derailment has been a major disruption to train traffic.

For the railroad company, the focus remains on getting commerce back open.

"We hope to have the railroad open mid-afternoon today and should have everything cleaned up as far as our equipment and once they transload, we can work to clean up the environment and get things back to normal,” Reck said.

P&L will continue to provide compensation to people financially impacted by the derailment. The company even opened a second outreach center Monday. Reck said the company has paid out at least $325,000 in reimbursements so far.

“We know we'll be open for at least the next couple days because we really do want to reimburse the people for any inconvenience they had and I think we're getting there,” Reck said.

The cause of the derailment remains under investigation and P&L Railway said its outreach centers for those inconvenienced by the accident will remain open for several days.